An institute here has started a 10-week Chinese-speaking course for foreign diplomats, a media report said Sunday.Fifty-six diplomats from 26 countries will attend the course every weekend, China Daily reported.The programme was launched Saturday by  ..

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) University kickstarted its three-day green cultural festival 'Aahvaan 2010' Friday. This year's theme 'Towards zilch lifestyle' is aimed at promoting a zero waste lifestyle."All the a ..

Cash-strapped universities and colleges in California will get more than $200 million in stimulus funds that will allow many campuses to admit new students, restore courses and retain faculty and staff, a media report said Friday.The University of Ca ..

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has begun a three-day meeting of its international partner institutions to make its programmes more viable.The fifth coordinators’ meet began Wednesday and is organised by IGNOU's Internati ..

India is nowhere in the recently released world university rankings. The three rankings — Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and QS World Universit ..

Bangladesh will soon launch a new satellite for improvement of information and communication technology, a government statement said.According to the statement released Wednesday, the satellite will upgrade the broadcasting facilities of the country  ..

Houston-based Boeing Company Wednesday said it has a tentative agreement with Space Adventures Ltd to provide seats for private passengers into outer space.The seats would be on board its CST-100 spacecraft, which it is developing under NASAs push fo ..

Indian and Chinese students, who lag behind at age five, outshine white British children in exams when they reach age 16, a study has revealed.The research suggested that peer pressure may influence how well different groups work at their studies.The ..

The global meltdown has knocked out the information technology and enabled services (IT/ITes) as the top job creator and pushed it to the fourth place, says a survey on hiring trends in 2010.The healthcare and hospitality sector has emerged on top of ..

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up to launch four satellites within a span of one week in December, a top space scientist said Tuesday."We will be launching the satellites this December. Currently the two rockets are bei ..

Three students of a government-run polytechnic institute were Tuesday booked for physically abusing and ragging two of their juniors on the campus in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district, police said.Montu Singh and Sandeep Kumar - both first year stu ..

Haryana's Board of School Education Tuesday announced the postponement of all examinations that were scheduled to begin from Wednesday but officials did not disclose the reasons for this."Examinations have been postponed due to unavoidable c ..

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has let it be known that he was looking forward to tackling pointed questions on any topic during a 40-minute interactive session Tuesday at the Visva-Bharati University founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath T ..

India's first course in value addition to bamboo products, intended to meet demands of the international market, will be introduced in Tripura University in collaboration with the textile ministry's Bamboo and Cane Development Institute (BCDI ..

India and the US should explore the feasibility of a space-based solar power (SBSP) programme with the ultimate aim of putting in place a commercially viable system by 2025, a report by a defence ministry funded think tank says.There is, however, a c ..

The Indo-Russian Multirole Transport Aircraft (MTA), designed to replace India's AN 32 aircraft, should be flying in about seven years, a Russian official has said. The aircraft would be useful in natural disaster relief missions.Vladimir A. Bely ..

Russian cargo spaceship Progress M-07M successfully docked Sunday with the International Space Station (ISS), the mission control centre said.The spacecraft docked with the Zvezda service module at the ISS at 3.58 p.m. Moscow time (1158 GMT), Valery  ..

A day after Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal announced far-reaching proposed reforms in IIT entrance exams, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh Saturday targetted the minister, saying the ministry should shift its focus from hi ..

A circular against teacher T.J. Joseph, whose right palm was chopped off by radical Muslim activists, was Sunday read out in 155 churches in Kerala that defended his dismissal from college. Joseph, however, said he was being wronged by the church.The ..

Indian maths graduates are being trained to give tuition to British children via telephone and internet round the clock, a report said Friday.A tutoring agency has hired 100 maths tutors in Punjab and coached them in British school syllabus so that t ..